Global customs are strictly investigated, and a large amount of Chinese goods have been detained...

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This storm not only caused a large amount of goods to be seized at the port, but also exposed the gray areas and systemic risks hidden in the global trade chain.

According to people familiar with the matter, the inspection rate across the United States continues to rise, and the value of goods and the authenticity of importers are the key inspection contents. Mechanical and electrical/electronics (such as electric scooters) and clothing and textiles are the hardest-hit areas for inspection. In addition, the high-invasion categories of intellectual property infringement continue to receive high attention.

See more details in Jacksonville, Baltimore, Norfolk, DallasThe inspection rate is very highThe inspection rates in Savannah, Seattle, Houston and Los Angeles are also on the riseContinuously rising. This can be said to be a multi-faceted siege.

"For violations such as coding errors, inconsistency between the country of origin, false declarations, etc., each fine is up to US,000. Many violations will be punished in total, and a single batch of goods can be fined up to tens of thousands of dollars."

According to CBP, in the first half of 2025 alone, US0 million tax evasion cases have been cracked through the "Trade Law Enforcement and Compliance Program" (EAPA), involving 89 investigations on reasonable suspicion of tax evasion.

What is even more severe is that in order to prevent goods from bypassing customs inspections, the new regulations require that containers selected for inspection at the Los Angeles/Long Beach ports must be transported to the central inspection station by designated truck companies, and ordinary trucks will be prohibited from participating. This move directly leads to a decrease in the time limit for the lifting of the container and a surge in corporate demurrage costs.

Many logistics industry insiders said that after the new regulations come into effect, the timeliness of the lifting of the container will be greatly reduced, and relevant companies need to be prepared to generate terminal demise fees.

In July 2025, the European Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) launched the "Calypso Operation" in the Port of Piraeus, Greece, seizing 480 containers and 700 million euros of Chinese goods involved in the case, including textiles, footwear and electric scooters.

The investigation shows that criminal gangs evaded taxes in three years by forging documents and low-value reporting (such as declaring a 500 euro electric scooter as 100 euros).

This case exposed the false declaration of 15% of goods in China-Europe trade. The EU is planning to tighten supervision of China, with the expected customs clearance time being extended by 3 days and freight rates rising by 30%.

A European freight forwarder said that European customs clearance policies have been more perfect recently and the customs clearance requirements are becoming more and more stringent. Therefore, export sellers must ensure that the number of boxes, product pieces, pictures, and HS are completely consistent, and they must be equipped with physical pictures, rather than downloading pictures at will online.

If there is any inconsistency in the relevant information, the customs will impose a fine of 7,500 euros, and the products involved will only be destroyed.

Outside Europe and the United States, strict investigations in Thailand are also continuing.

"Thailand's current customs clearance is difficult. If the goods cannot be cleared smoothly, they may be abandoned and a high abandonment fee is required, which is about US0." Several freight forwarders told the editor that given the strict investigation by Thai customs, express delivery is almost no longer covered by customs clearance or tax.

Recently, the Ministry of Industry of Thailand jointly launched a special campaign to "knock down on unsafe imported goods" with multiple departments, seizing 600,000 electronic and electrical products (such as mobile power supplies, plugs) that have not been compulsoryly certified by TISI, with a value of 1.6 million yuan. Most of the seizures are from China. At present, the goods involved have been forced to be removed from the e-commerce platform.

Thailand Customs also announced that it will cancel the tax exemption policy for low-priced goods from 2025, and impose a 7% VAT on imported goods worth less than 1,500 baht, and require individuals to obtain an FDA or TISI license for their own food, cosmetics, etc., otherwise they will be discarded and a high abandonment fee will be charged.

According to people familiar with the matter, as the peak season approaches, the inspection efforts of foreign customs will often be further strengthened and the inspection standards will be stricter. However, even during the non-peak season, daily customs inspections have not been relaxed. Customs tolerance for illegal imported goods such as intellectual property infringement and tariff evasion is declining. This marks the arrival of a more stringent era of regulation.